When Travis Kelce defends Harrison Butker, does he make Harrison look higher?
Or does Travis make himself look worse?
Sadly, it’s as soon as once more time to speak about Travis Kelce’s terrible teammate, Harrison Butker.
It’s one factor to (needlessly) defend somebody’s proper to say terrible issues. However Travis is taking issues additional than that.
Travis Kelce is definitely defending Harrison Butker
On Friday, Might 24, Travis Kelce spoke about his now-notorious teammate, Harrison Butker, on the New Heights podcast that he shares together with his brother, Jason Kelce.
That is the primary time that Travis Kelce has spoken about Harrison Butker’s Benedictine Faculty speech for the reason that man spewed hatred and misogyny from a podium earlier in Might.
Many individuals hoped that Taylor Swift’s boyfriend would name out Butker. However evidently Kelce has chosen one other path.
Keep in mind, not solely did Butker spew misogyny and homophobia, he additionally talked about Taylor Swift — referring to her as “my teammate’s girlfriend.”
As if being a billionaire, Grammy-winning, record-breaking celebrity wasn’t sufficient!
Regardless of this, Travis Kelce has outlandishly referred to his teammate (Butker is a “kicker” on the crew) as a “nice particular person and an ideal teammate.”
Kelce emphasised that he doesn’t agree with “nearly any of” the abhorrent issues that got here spewing out of Butker’s mouth. However apparently Kelce’s a kind of individuals who thinks you can say despicable issues and nonetheless be, one way or the other, a superb particular person.
‘I cherish him as a teammate’
“I’ve identified him for seven-plus years most likely, eight-plus years,” Travis Kelce recalled of Butker. “And I cherish him as a teammate.”
He delved into the controversy: “When it comes right down to his views and what he mentioned on the [Benedictine College] graduation speech, you recognize, these are his.” Sure, that’s how views work.
“I can’t say I agree with nearly all of it — or, nearly any of it,” Kelce admitted. “Outdoors of simply him loving his household and his children.”
Travis Kelce then went on to elucidate: “And I don’t assume that I ought to choose him by his views — particularly his spiritual views of tips on how to go about life. That’s simply not who I’m.”
One does then need to ask concerning the foundation on which Kelce does choose somebody. There are individuals who solely consider somebody’s character by how they, personally, deal with them. That’s tragically shortsighted.
Is Kelce somebody who doesn’t care how a person treats others, as long as he’s well mannered to him?
Apparently, Harrison Butker being good to Travis Kelce personally is sufficient for him
Kelce cited how Butker has at all times been variety to Kelce and to his family and friends. “That’s how he treats everybody,” Kelce argued.
Somebody smiling and talking politely in particular person is just not the identical as being good. It’s simply politeness.
It is a man who referred to ladies’s rights as “diabolical” whereas telling them to be stay-at-home mothers. And he spewed hate about “the lethal sin form of Delight that has a complete month devoted to it” and “pushing harmful gender ideologies onto the youth of America.” None of that’s variety or good.
The NFL has determined towards penalizing Butker. Commissioner Roger Goodell mentioned one thing concerning the group’s “range of opinions.” (To not combine rotten apples with oranges, however was that the NFL’s stance when Colin Kaepernick bought a lot hell?)
If Travis Kelce had merely reminded everybody that Harrison Butker has a authorized proper to say loathsome, bigoted issues, he’d have been proper. It will be pointless (Butker is just not in any authorized bother), however he’d have commented on it.
As a substitute, Kelce appears prepared to consider that private politeness can one way or the other override outspoken bigotry and vitriol. It can not. There are rude people who find themselves good individuals. There are well mannered people who find themselves completely despicable. Clearly, Harrison Butker is the latter.
